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Roberto Wekker; Team Business Cycle Statistics.
Business Cycle Tracer
Small & Medium Enterprises
Overview
– Need for coherent tracing SME economic activity
– Methodology BCT
– Important features of Dutch SME
– Real and rapid indicators
– BCT SME
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Need for coherent tracing SME economic activity
– Great Recession had a long lasting negative impact on Dutch SME
– SME focus is on domestic consumption: retail trade, other services,
construction: 4-6 years negative growth from 2009 on.
– Exportsector (mainly large compagnies manufacturing industry;
whole sale; transport) suffered less longer. Economic recovery
started much earlier
– Development 3 GDP components: before 2003/ 2009 after
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Need for coherent tracing SME economic activity
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domestic consumption investments export of goods and services
Need for coherent tracing SME economic activity
– economic information SME , not coherent published!
– Secretary of Economic Affaires and the Dutch Committee
of Entrepreneurship and Finance requested CBS to
develop a tool to monitor coherent the economic
development of total SME
– CBS proposed to construct a BCT to monitor quarter on
quarter the economic state of total SME (of course real
time and reliable)
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Methodology BCT
– In 2005 CBS developed the first BCT for whole economy
– BCT contains a carefully selected mix of leading,
coincident and lagging business cycle indicators: not too
many not too few.
– The idea behind is that leading indicators give early
warning of the business cycle (measured by coincident
indicators) while lagging indicators give a second, final
confirmation
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Methodology BCT
– Visual presentation of selected indicators in a scattergram with four quadrants
– Each quadrant represents a main stage of the business cycle: boom/hausse contraction/down (above trend) recession/baisse recovery (below trend) – Every month the main point of indicators (cloud) indicates the
stance of the BC.
– Important: indicators change gradually together, BCT should not be a pinball box!
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Methodology BCT
– Klok afbeelding
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Methodology BCT
– Klok afbeelding
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Main economic features of Dutch SME
– 63% of GDP (2015); 70% of employed persons (2015)
– 1,0 mln of 1,6 mln firms: 1-250 employed workers
– Entrepreneurship SME prime focus on domestic markets
SME depends fare more on consumption than export
– Financial limitations (access to bankcredits) is for SME
more structural compared with large firms.
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Important economic features of Dutch SME
– Financial limitations (access to bankcredit) is for SME
more structural compared with large firms.
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Important economic features of Dutch SME
– Financial constraints SME structural more pessimistic
over their investments than LE
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Important economic features of NL SME
– Analysis conducted with real indicators (turnover,
vacancies, bankrupties) and rapid indicators (pricing,
competition position, profit) revealed differences in
economic development between SME and LE.
– Out of gross list indicator constructed BCT which covers
important cyclical aspects for SME : economic
development, consumption, labor market, finance and
export (1/3 of SME compagnies have export)
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Real and rapid indicators
Real indicators finally selected:
– Domestic consumption
– Consumption durable goods
– Turnover SME
– Vacancies SME
– Bankrupties SME
– GDP (macro-economic context for SME)
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Real and rapid indicators
Real indicators: domestic consumption & durable goods.
Durable goods is cyclically important category: determines a 1.0
%-point change in domestic consumption for 0.45 %-point
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Real and rapid indicators
Real indicator turnover: development of turnover SME
develops smoother/more stable than LE’s (sensitive WT)
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Real and rapid indicators
Real indicators: Vacancies SME (± 55% total).
develops in line with total but less volatile; has a good
correlation with GDP.
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Real and rapid indicators
Real indicator: Bankrupties SME
98% of all bankrupties in business economy* are SME.
Main causes are weak economic conditions and financial
loss. Bankrupties are important to monitor particularly for
SME.
*(NACE B-S excluding K and R)
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Real and rapid indicators
Real indicator: GDP the macro-economic context for SME
Real SME indicators have a good correlation with GDP.
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Real and rapid indicators
Rapid indicators much more information was available;
1) Producer Business tendency survey (PBTS)
2) Consumer business tendency survey (CBTS)
PBTS information is gathered on many economic topics for
period T-1, T and T+1 , for instance
Development of orderbooks T-1: answers + = -
Judgement of present orderbooks T: answers + = -
Expectation of orderbooks T+1: answer + = -
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Real and rapid indicators
For SME the PBTS is conducted quarterly.
for BCT-SME two types of outcomes were used
Balances: the difference of positive and negative replies,
Percentage of firms replies on factors limiting production
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factors such as unsufficient demand, finance, shortage of
staff, equipment, weather, …
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Real and rapid indicators
2) Consumer business tendency survey (CBTS)
– Look forward t+12 months and look back t-12 months
– Answer categories of + = -
– Balances were used in BCT
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Real and rapid indicators
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Real and rapid indicators
Applied in BCT-SME from:
PBTS 5 composite rapid indicators
CBTS 1 composite rapid indicator.
“Rapid” BECAUSE opinion information IS released earlier
than official quantitative outcomes (real indicators)
Besides publication lead often there is also an historical
lead on real indicators
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Real and rapid indicators
For BCT-SME 6 composite rapid indicators were compiled:
1. Economic development (orders, competion position,
and frictions in demand and supply)
2. Employment development: vacancies
3. Consumption and durable goods
4. Producer Confidence
5. Export development
6. Financial Confidence
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Real and rapid indicators
Composite rapid indicator for economic development, important
for SME but also relates to the overall economic development (GDP):
purchase orders, competition position, two indicators to signal frictions
in demand & supply
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Real and rapid indicators
Composite rapid indicator for economic development, important
for SME but also relates to the overall economic development (GDP):
purchase orders, competition position, two indicators to signal frictions
in demand & supply
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Real and rapid indicators
Composite rapid indicator vacancies indicator.
based on labour market and economic indicators.
For SME only one real indicator is available: number of
vacancies.
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Real and rapid indicators
Composite rapid indicator producer confidence
Based on development and expected turnover and development of
economic climate (existing composite indicator)
Composite rapid indicator financial confidence
Based on development of profitability, expected investments and
financial factors limiting production.
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Real and rapid indicators
Composite rapid indicator export development
Based on development of competition position on EU markets and
export turnover, judgment foreign order books, expected export orders
Composite rapid indicator consumption development
Based on consumer evaluation of current economic development,
current own financial situation, willingness to buy durable goods,
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Real and rapid indicators
– Financial confidence leads number of bankrupties
(weak economic conditions and low profitability)
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Real and rapid indicators
– Exportindicator of SME vis á vis total exportvolume
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Real and rapid indicators
– SME entrepreurship depends in general on domestic
consumption and in particular on durable goods.
– Monitor consumption via rapid and real indicators.
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BCT SME
– In total 12 business cycle indicator
– 8 are SME (5-250 employed persons)
– 4 are macro-economic but relevant for SME activities
– 6 real indicators
– 6 rapid indicators
– BCT covers in a coherent way important business cycle
aspects: economic development, consumption, labour
market, producer and financial confidence, and export.
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BCT SME
BCT SME implemented on website SME ( developed by CBS
and Secretary of Economic Affairs).
http://staatvanhetmkb.nl/klok
(State of SME)
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BCT SME Q3 2016.
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BCT SME
BCT (mean): total (12), rapid (6) and real (6)
Rapid is ‘leading’ or ‘early warning’ indicator of total BCT
SME and GDP with regard to 4 main cycle phases.
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BCT SME
Future plans
BCT small enterprises (0-50 employed persons), 2018
Brings this in line with existing producer confidence for
total SME and small enterpisies.
Regional Producer Confidence and BCT
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